Police worry more children were victims of abuse by man charged in sex assault

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin police arrested a man who sold chips, candy and sodas to children from his home after a teen reported he had sexually assaulted her when she was 6-years-old.

The teen reported Marco Antonio Rodriguez-Bustos sexually assaulted her after she went to buy chips from his house located on the 7100 block of Astro View Drive. The victim is now 15-years-old.

While police documents say Rodriguez-Bustos admitted to sexually assaulting the young girl, his neighbors say they’re having a hard time believing this happened.

“I’m in shock,” Jimmy Griffin said. “I never known him to do nothing like that.”

Police say the girl told her mother and sister that Rodriguez-Bustos forced her to have sex with him when she was only 6 or 7 years old. According to court documents, the victim says she was sexually assaulted three different times.